“Die, damned beast!”
In a split second, Meng Lei’s fist, which carried a fearsome power capable of destroying the heavens and earth, had already gone smashing toward the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s abdomen.
“A tiny little ant that thinks too highly of himself!”
The Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor let out a snort. The blood-red spikes on its eight legs left the legs and shot abruptly toward Meng Lei like a dense, concentrated rain of swords.
They moved lightning-quick!
There were so many that they were densely packed like rain and sealed off the whole place.
The Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor wanted to stab so many holes into Meng Lei that he’d turn into a sieve.
“Good job coming here!”
Meng Lei let out a loud laugh. Dazzling golden light shot out of him, turning him instantly into a golden sun, and he went through a transformation again.
Dazzling golden armor, savage golden barbed spikes, and a brilliant golden body appeared as he transformed into a Golden Gods-Slaying Ant.
Boom!
In that instant, Meng Lei’s aura erupted once more, and his speed spiked dramatically again. Then, he strangely vanished into thin air.
Stab, stab, stab!
The dense rain of steel needles missed their target and stabbed into the ground, whereas Meng Lei suddenly appeared underneath the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s abdomen instead. Then, he smashed his fist ruthlessly into its abdomen.
Boom!
Incredibly wild and violent energy erupted with a deafening boom. Like a drum, the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s belly actually let out a huge brass bell-like boom and produced wave after wave of ripples.
However, the unfortunate thing was that Meng Lei’s fist didn’t actually manage to punch through it.
“What?!”
Meng Lei’s expression changed at once.
After he had spent the gold coins in the system, his Physical Body Constitution points had gone as high as 7.6 hundred million.
In addition, after his ant transformation, his Physical Body Constitution had multiplied by several times again. He had long since broken through the 1 billion mark to reach another level altogether.
This meant that his body was comparable to a Saint Domain’s after his ant transformation. Since that was so, why wasn’t he able to punch through the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s abdomen?
“Kid, you’re oversimplifying things!” Ol’ Amos shook his head with a sigh. “The moment a Magical Beast steps into the Saint Domain, they become as strong as a mid-level human Saint Domain, perhaps even a high-level one. How is it something that you can kill?”
Splurt!
However, he had only just spoken when he heard a crisp pop. Ol’ Amos looked over in surprise, only to see a black spear piercing through the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s head.
“Hehe! It’s a good thing that I took precautions, then!”
Chapter 115: I’ve Grown Too Full of Myself, But I Didn’t Slip Up That Badly
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
To be very, very honest, Meng Lei felt that he’d grown a bit too full of himself recently—and the kind of growing into a huge balloon, no less.
His training in the Magical Beast Forest, the sudden eruption of the ant tide, the series of gold coin expenditure in the system, and his chance encounters had allowed his battle capabilities to skyrocket madly, which had, in turn, allowed him to advance quite a few grades in succession.
To recap, before he had come to the Magical Beast Forest, he had only been a Seventh-Grade Warrior and a Sixth-Grade Magician. Yet, in just a short month or so, he had already become a Ninth-Grade Warrior and a Ninth-Grade Magician!
If he were to use his trump cards, he could narrowly compare to a Saint Domain.
The speed of improvements in his battle capabilities was astounding.
However, this also made Meng Lei’s ego go through unprecedented inflation. As a result, when facing the Saint Domain Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor, what had occurred to Meng Lei first and foremost hadn’t been to escape but to kill the other party instead.
A Saint Domain Magical Beast! That was a Saint Domain Magical Beast!
If he could kill it, just how much would he earn?
And so, Meng Lei had staked all his assets on the gamble and made a frenzied attack. However, what he didn’t expect was that his best shot at full power hadn’t dealt even the slightest bit of damage to the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor at all.
How infuriating was that?
He had put in so much effort, yet it was still completely fine and dandy?
“It’s a good thing that I’d used the Gods-Slaying Spear when I attacked earlier. Otherwise, I would have been in grave danger.”
Meng Lei dodged a few times consecutively and put a safe distance between himself and the Magical Beasts. He couldn’t help but be relieved at his decision earlier.
As the saying went, “Always have a backup plan”!
No matter when, one must always leave a way out for themselves. Their forefathers didn’t lie, indeed.
“That kid is actually so devious?”
Ol’ Amos was dumbfounded. He had thought that Meng Lei was doomed for sure; after all, what he was up against was a Saint Domain Magical Beast.
How was charging forward like that so recklessly any different from seeking death on his own?
Little did he expect that Meng Lei would actually be that sly. At the same time as he had attacked, he hadn’t forgotten to use the Gods-Slaying Spear to ambush the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor from the back.
An attack from the open and another attack from the shadows.
The double whammy had successfully scammed a good one out of the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor. That was simply too insidious.
Screeeeechhh!
The Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor actually didn’t die even after its head was pierced by the Gods-Slaying Spear. Tremendous pain assailed its senses, and it roared again and again, its eyes full of violent brutality and bloodthirstiness.
Boom!
Its blade-like foreleg lifted into the air and cleaved ruthlessly toward Meng Lei, moving fast and viciously. Should the hit land, even a Colossal Dragon would be cleaved into two.
“Hehe, you can’t hit me!”
Meng Lei zoomed backward and retreated. Then, with a snap of his fingers, a 100-meters-wide fireball suddenly appeared above the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor.
“Flame Inferno… Drop!”
Boom!
Flame Inferno fell from the sky and crashed against the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s head with pinpoint accuracy, covering its eyes.
“Here’s my chance!”
Meng Lei wielded the Gods-Slaying Spear and stabbed it straight into the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s eyes. With a spurt, the Gods-Slaying Spear went all the way in.
Screech!
The Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor let out a shrill cry. It looked as if the intense pain would cause it to go berserk any moment.
Meng Lei was unaffected, however. He appeared at its abdomen again and shouted, “Where are you, Gods-Slaying Spear?!”
Whoosh!
The Gods-Slaying Spear transformed into a stream of light and returned to Meng Lei’s hand. With the spear in his grip, Meng Lei stabbed it forcefully into the Magical Beast, and then, he dragged it across with great force.
Rip!
Amid spine-chilling sounds of something being ripped, a deep fissure was slashed through the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s abdomen.
Splurt!
Foul-smelling scarlet-red blood sprayed about like a waterfall. Meng Lei sneered, and a ten-meter-long thunder arrow instantly appeared.
It was the Eighth-Grade Spell, Thunderbolt Light Arrow!
“Go!”
Meng Lei casually hurled it forward. The Thunderbolt Light Arrow cut through the air and stabbed accurately into the fissure.
“Your skin may be incredibly tough, but I don’t believe that your guts are just as tough!”
Meng Lei’s form retreated in an explosive burst of speed. Just as he dodged, the Thunderbolt Light Arrow that had shot into the fissure exploded with a loud boom. As the deafening explosion rang out, the light from lightning spilled everywhere freely, and blood sprayed about. A huge pit was blasted out of the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s abdomen.
Splash!
Together with blood and bits of flesh, brightly-colored innards and internal organs came smashing down onto the ground, emitting dull bams as they did so. A shocking stench rushed toward Meng Lei, and he almost threw up his meal from the night before.
“What the heck?” Meng Lei quickly held his hand over his nose and mouth and retreated swiftly. “Has that thing been eating sh*t or what? It stinks!”
The consecutive attacks had obviously heavily injured the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor. Its eight legs scrabbled at its internal organs, trying to stuff the foul-smelling organs back into its abdomen.
However, with such a huge hole there, how was it supposed to stuff them back?
Even after half a day of efforts spent in vain, it didn’t manage to stuff the internal organs back inside. On the contrary, its stamina even depleted at a faster rate. Its body became weaker and weaker, while its roars turned softer and softer.
At last, the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor collapsed onto the ground, gasping for air intermittently. Its eyes also began to dull and glaze over, looking as though it was on the brink of death.
“Haha, I’ve succeeded!”
Meng Lei appeared on top of a large tree and watched the dozens of meters tall massive creature that was slumped on the ground, his blood boiling in excitement and agitation.
He had actually killed the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor, a Saint Domain Magical Beast!
“I… can kill even a Saint Domain now?” Meng Lei murmured to himself, feeling as though he was in a dream.
“Brat, you’ve actually managed to kill the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor!” Ol’ Amos exclaimed as he emerged.
He examined the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor that was barely breathing anymore as he twisted his beard, also finding himself in disbelief. He remarked, “Even though you did use a divine weapon like the Gods-Slaying Spear, I am still truly impressed that you managed to kill it.”
“Haha, it was just luck. Luck!”
Meng Lei let out a couple of loud laughs. Then, the Gods-Slaying Spear flew out of nowhere and stabbed wildly at the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s head. Although that thing was already at death’s door, who knew how long it would take before it would really breathe its last?
Meng Lei felt awfully insecure looking at his starkly empty Wealth, so he desperately needed gold coins. Many, many gold coins!
Stab, stab, stab!
A series of mad stabbings later, the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s head turned into a sieve, riddled with innumerable holes. It was only then that the powerful Saint Domain Magical Beast died with great grievance amid feelings of indignation and humiliation.
It really was filled with great indignation.
It, a high and mighty Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor, had immediately annihilated its eternal foe, the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants when it had only just broken through to the Saint Domain realm. It had been in high and vigorous spirits, ready to achieve great things!
Who would have expected that things would go downhill at its peak?
It had only just ascended to the peak of its spider life and hadn’t even begun to enjoy its life, yet this had to happen. Not only did it not manage to wipe out the remnants of the Bloodthirsty Iron-Crystal Ants, but it had even lost its life.
It really fulfilled the meaning behind the saying, “Life is unpredictable; who knows which would come first—tomorrow, or an accident?”
“Ding! 1 Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor killed. 5.2 billion gold coins gained!”
A system notification appropriately rang out at this point. The cold, emotionless voice sounded just like music to Meng Lei’s ears, making him feel as if he was intoxicated.
Hehe! Although it was dangerous, my gamble paid off! Adding the extra 5 billion from the magic core to these 5.2 billion gold coins, that makes it 10 billion gold coins!
And that stinky carcass! I’ve struck it big, struck it big…
Chapter 116: Taking Inventory of His Rewards, The Underground World
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
With the end of the battle, peace and quiet were restored in the forest.
A campfire continued to blaze. On the ground, a short distance away quietly laid a massive object as tall as a building more than a dozen floors tall—the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s carcass.
Meng Lei admired its carcass as he munched away on a fragrant pig trotter, carefree and happy.
Although he had taken a risk in killing the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor, it had brought him handsome rewards and benefits.
The first was the 10 billion gold coins (inclusive of the magic core). Not only had he gotten back his 7.5 billion gold coins, but he had even earned an additional 2.5 billion.
This transaction… was totally worth it.
Next was the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s carcass.
Every part of a Saint Domain Magical Beast was a piece of invaluable treasure. The Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor could probably fetch a few billion gold coins at the very least.
That was another sum of profits.
The last was his Physical Body Constitution points that reached as high as 7.6 hundred million. This implied that as long as Meng Lei was willing to, he could spend 2.4 billion gold coins to break through the 1 billion points limit and step into the Saint Domain realm anytime.
A Saint Domain-level body at 16 years old—that was something rarely seen even in the long course of history!
“Hahaha!”
Immersed in his thoughts, Meng Lei couldn’t help bursting into loud laughter as he ate and drank. His free and unrestrained laughter echoed in the quiet forest like an owl’s cries, making one awfully creeped out.
“Hmph! What are you acting so triumphant for?”
Ol’ Amos sat cross-legged on top of a large tree. Terribly cross, he couldn’t resist letting out a snort secretly upon hearing Meng Lei’s laughter.
A while ago, he had asked Meng Lei how he had suddenly become so strong for no apparent reason. However, the response he had gotten was the three words, “It’s a secret!”, which terribly vexed the old man.
He had held nothing back and was very serious in teaching Meng Lei, but look at how the little bastard was keeping so many secrets from him in the end.
Thus, Ol’ Amos was very displeased.
“Since you’re keeping me in suspense, then fine.” Ol’ Amos gnashed his teeth secretly, “If I answer any of your questions again in the future, I’ll acknowledge you as my ancestor!”
Meng Lei didn’t know what Ol’ Amos was thinking, and he continued to eat, drink, and laugh. Upon sensing Ol’ Amos’ unusual expression, he couldn’t help but ask with a grin, “Ol’ President, can this Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor still fit in your spatial magic device?”
“Hmph!” Ol’ Amos snorted. “My spatial magic device has long since been full. Don’t you have any idea whether or not there’s any space left?”
“Uh…”
Meng Lei frowned slightly. He was in a pickle now—that was a carcass worth a few billion gold coins. There was no way he could possibly discard it, of course.
But where could he store it? Maybe he should get a few more spatial rings?
But that was an Underground Cave Magical Sp
ider Emperor that was as tall as a building over a dozen floors high. How many spatial rings would he need in order to fully store all of it?
“Hmm?”
Meng Lei’s gaze unwittingly landed on Little Gold. Wasn’t Little Gold’s stomach very big? Could it be used as a spatial ring?
Meng Lei popped the question the moment the thought occurred to him.
“Yes, it can. My stomach is very big.”
Little Gold nodded its little head to express that it was possible. After the events just now, it had become on even closer terms with Meng Lei now.
“That’s wonderful! Haha, Little Gold, you’re so awesome!”
Meng Lei was thrilled. “Little Gold, hurry and keep the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor’s carcass. Let’s go and do something big, hehe. Something big that’ll definitely make you very happy!”
“Yes, yes!”
Little Gold had no objections, of course. It climbed over to the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor, opened its mouth, and sucked in a deep breath. For a while there, something that left Meng Lei and Ol’ Amos dumbstruck took place:
The space around the Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor carcass actually began to warp and distort. As if ripples spreading out on the water surface of a lake, ripples started to wrap around the carcass one by one!
The Underground Cave Magical Spider Emperor carcass flew swiftly toward Little Gold, its size shrinking as it did. By the time it reached Little Gold, it had turned as tiny as a rice grain.
Then, Little Gold swallowed it into its belly in one gulp.
“This…” A huge jolt went through Meng Lei, and he asked in disbelief, “Ol’ President, is that space magic?”
“No! Space magic has long since been lost to the world!” Ol’ Amos shook his head. “That is just a simple space skill. Even so, it’s already very astonishing. The Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline is very extraordinary, indeed!”
The Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline?
A thought occurred to Meng Lei.
Didn’t I just assimilate the Golden Gods-Slaying Ant bloodline? Do I have a spatial ability like that?
Meng Lei hastily checked his own body the moment the notion occurred to him.
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